Alert archive / Arkansas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Tulsa, OK
NWS Tulsa, OK issued this flash flood warning at May 19, 1990, 3:46 PM CDT for Franklin County, Arkansas. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1990, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1990, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tulsa, OK
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, AR
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KUMN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 651 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KFSM 192048
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ARC047-192345-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT SMITH AR
346 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN FORT SMITH HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN WEST ARKANSAS
...FRANKLIN COUNTY
DUE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS...STREAMS ARE RISING RAPIDLY
AND ROADS ARE BEGINNING TO FLOOD. PEOPLE IN LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE
AREAS SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMAL{L ONE...ON FOOT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 12:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
1244 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 1990
...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA...
AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IS DEVELOPING OVER EASTERN OKLAHOMA...AND
SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE SHORTLY. THE AREA IS ABOUT
10 MILES WIDE AND EXTENDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF LAKE KEYSTONE NEAR NEW
PRUE NORTHWEST TO SKIATOOK.
THOSE PERSONS OUTDOORS...ESPECIALLY ANY BOATERS ON LAKES KEYSTONE AND
SKIATOOK NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THESE STORMS AND SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE
PLACE IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.
THESE STORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS LATER THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL
LIKELY BE SEVERE IN SOME AREAS. CIVIL DEFENSE AND SPOTTER GROUPS MAY
WANT TO BEGIN MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL RADIO AND TELEVISION
FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
]Local storm report, May 19, 1:28 PM CDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
126 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 1990
...DELAYED REPORTS FROM EARLY THIS MORNING MAY 19 1990...
TIME/CDT COUNTY EVENT
245 AM PITTSBURG DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SAVANA.Local storm report, May 19, 3:38 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA, OK
334 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 1990
TIME/CDT COUNTY EVENT
220 PM OSAGE DIME SIZE HAIL 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW PRUE.
242 PM OSAGE QUARTER SIZE HAIL 5 MILES EAST OF NEW PRUE.
305 PM OSAGE NICKEL SIZE HAIL 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAND
SPRINGS.Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Arkansas, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.